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	Whale oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whale oil is the oil obtained from the blubber of various species of whales of the genus Balaena, as B.
		When separated and pressed, this deposit is known as whale tallow, and the oil from which it is removed is distinguished as pressed whale-oil; this, owing to its limpidity, is sometimes passed as sperm-oil.
		The first principal use of whale oil was as an illuminant in lamps and as candle wax.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whale_oil (298 words)

	History of whaling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The type of whale sought was at that time abundant in the North Atlantic and particularly in the Bay of Biscay: the right whale—named because it was the "right" whale to hunt.
		By the late 16th century, right whales were almost exterminated in the eastern North Atlantic and Basque, Norwegian and Icelandic whalers were traveling as far afield as the Gulf of St Lawrence and to the edges of the Greenland ice-pack.
		In the heyday of whaling during the 19th and early 20th centuries, large species such as the Humpback Whale and Blue Whale were the primary targets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_whaling (2357 words)

	New Bedford Whaling Museum \| Research
		Whale oil: Otherwise known as "train oil" the whale oils are varying shades of brown in color, depending upon the age of the blubber from which they were boiled and the general health of the animal from which they were obtained.
		Whale oils were the first of all oils — animal or mineral — to achieve commercial importance.
		Yankee whaling merchants sometimes adopted the phrase "brown oil is better than no oil," in their instructions to their ship captains meaning that rather than return home without having filled the ship with sperm oil, they were to take other whales instead.
	www.whalingmuseum.org /kendall/amwhale/am_hunt.html (1221 words)

	The last American whale oil compnay
		Whale oil is a fuel from another age but was sold in America until 1978 by Nye Lubricants, the last American whale oil company.
		For centuries whalers were familiar with oil from the head and jaw of toothed whales, oil that never seemed to congeal, even in the sub-zero temperatures encountered in the Arctic.
		Whale oil was indeed the finest lubricating oil in the world.
	oh.essortment.com /whaleoil_redd.htm (536 words)

	Whales on the Net - Whale FAQ
		Although male Sperm whales often have large scars on their bodies the scars are usually the result of battles with other adult males and not the result of life-and-death struggles with monstrous squid.
		Exceptions are the Gray whale, the Beluga, the Narwhal, Baird's Beaked whale, Southern Bottlenose whale, Andrews' Beaked whale, Hubbs' Beaked whale, Ginkgo-toothed Beaked whale, Longman's Beaked whale, Lesser Beaked whale and Stejneger's Beaked whale.
		The baleen whale species that approach the Equator from the north to mate and calve, if they were then to carry on south after the mating and calving season in the northern winter would encounter the southern winter in what was supposed to be their summer feeding season.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/discover/faq (5967 words)

	Hotline
		The predicted exhaustion of whale oil is instructive since it was America's first great "energy crisis." In the 1800s, before petroleum was discovered, the primary source of artificial lighting in the world was whale oil (particularly though not exclusively sperm whale oil).
		During the civil war while the demand for whale oil continued to rise, the supply dropped sharply as whaling ships were conscripted as cargo vehicles by the North and captured or sunk by privateers in the South.
		By 1896 sperm whale oil had dropped to 40¢ a gallon, the cheapest it had ever been - however, use did not increase because new kerosene and newly discovered petroleum were abundant and cheap and the technologies had evolved to use those fuels.
	www.ncpa.org /hotlines/energy/afarg1.html (1164 words)

	Hunting the Right Whale
		Whale meat provided an important source of protein in areas of the world with a limited number of land animals available as food, and in northern regions affected by a growing season too short to support a base of agriculture.
		Oil is produced from the meat and blubber, and is used in lamps and as a lubricant.
		In 1876, a whaling vessel from New Bedford, Massachusetts, arrived in Brunswick, Georgia, to unload cargo of whale oil and baleen.
	www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov /whalebook/hunt.html (822 words)

	Abraham Gesner Saved the Whales
		Whales were especially valued for their oil, which was used primarily as fuel for lamps.
		Whaling was a major industry in the 19th century, and the United States was the pre-eminent whaling nation.
		The reason for its decline was not because of public awareness of the evils of whaling, it was not because of consciousness-raising efforts by pioneer environmentalists, and it definitely was not because of legislation.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/gesner.html (1965 words)

	The Avalon Project : Observations on the Whale Fishery
		Whale oil enters, as a raw material, into several branches of manufacture, as of wool, leather, soap: it is used also in painting, architecture and navigation.
		The article of Whale oil was accordingly distinguished, in the letter of M. de Calonne, by an immediate abatement of duty, and promise of further abatement after the year 1790.
		The English had now begun to deluge the markets of France with their whale oils: and they were enabled by the great premiums given by their Government to undersell the French fisherman, aided by feebler premiums, and the American aided by his poverty alone.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/jeffwhal.htm (4897 words)

	KCPC Education Resource Web Site: 9.5.1 Case Study 3: Whale Products
		Historically, concern about the plummetting whale populations became an issue in during the mid-20th century, and in 1946 the International Whaling Commission was formed to protect the future of whales.
		All the products that once were derived from the oil of a whale are now made from alternative sources, such as petroleum and vegetable oils.
		Whale oil, as well as other sources of animal fat, was used to make margarine as late as the 1950's.
	www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au /discovery/9.5.1/9.5.1_whale.html (713 words)

	Chronolgy of Oil Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Oil sands are mined and the oil extracted at Pechelbronn field in Alsace, France.
		Oil is collected from tunnels dug at Sulphur Mountain in Ventura County by the brothers of railroad baron Leland Stanford, the same year that these techniques are applied to the Pechelbronn oil mine in France.
		At the height of the industry in 1856, sperm oil sold for $1.77 a gallon, and the United States was producing 4 to 5 million gallons of spermaceti and 6 to 10 million gallons of train oil annually.
	www.sjgs.com /history.html (2997 words)

	WHALE-OIL - LoveToKnow Article on WHALE-OIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Train-oil proper is the northernwhale-oil, but this term has been applied to all blubber oils, and in Germany, to all marine animal oilsfish-oils, liver oils, and blubber oils.
		The most important whale-oil is sperm or spermaceti oil, yielded by the sperm-whales.
		With lowering of the temperature stearin, accompanied with a small proportion of spermaceti, separates from the oil, and a little under the freezingpoint nearly the whole of these Constituents may be crystallized out.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHALE_OIL.htm (226 words)

	Wonders of the Seas: Sperm Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales on the planet, and perhaps the most abundant of the great whales, but we rarely get to study them because they spend so much time underwater.
		Sperm whales are deep divers, holding their breath and diving thousands of feet down to feed on deep sea squid and fish.
		Sperm whales are even harder to find than other species because they don't stick out of the water very much and their distinctive blow is small and easily missed.
	www.oceanicresearch.org /spermwhales.htm (1372 words)

	Whale Oil Myth
		According to the myth, whale oil became expensive when whales became scarce, and this in turn brought on the development of kerosene.
		Although it is true that whale oil became more expensive in the 1840s and 50s, there were already many fuels on the market before whale oil and every sizeable town had a store devoted to a variety of lamps and lamp fuels.
		The whale oil myth is now being retold simply as an example of how over-exploitation of resources will lead to a decline in supply, and this strikes me rather like someone who forgot the punch line to what was originally a bad joke anyway.
	www.runet.edu /~wkovarik/misc/blog/8.whaleoil.html (1416 words)

	Prices and Production over a complete Hubbert Cycle: the Case of the American Whale Fisheries in 19th Century \| ...
		In fact, crude oil may turn out to be the first, which incidentally may be one of the reasons why the concept of "peak oil" is so difficult for many people to grasp.
		Two species of whale: the Sperm whale and the Right whale, were hunted in the 19th Century, mainly for the oil obtainable from their fat, which was used as fuel for lamps.
		Whales were also hunted for so-called Whale Bone (or baleen), which was used for stiffening clothing.
	www.energybulletin.net /3338.html (1382 words)

	Burners for Whale Oil - The Lampworks
		The whale oil burner commonly consists of one or two tubes made of tin set in a base of brass, tin or pewter.
		Whale oil burners characteristically have a large portion of the wick tube that extends downward into the oil fount.
		Because whale oil was quite thick, especially at cold temperatures, this design helped to transfer heat from the flame to liquefy the oil.
	www.thelampworks.com /lw_burners_04.htm (226 words)

	whale oil on Encyclopedia.com
		oil extracted from the blubber and other parts of certain species of whales.
		Of whales and ocean warming: a plan to sound out the sea's temperature may be back on course.
		Whale watch: pursued to the brink of extinction, cetaceans fight for survival against man-made odds.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w1/whaleoil.asp (488 words)

	How to cook a whale. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Though a hunter, a man, has found the whale, preparing food is women's work, and therefore the daughter of the hunter has the rights to prepare the whale.
		Once everybody is ready, you bring tools, and the hunter who found the whale leads everybody in their canoes to the spot where he found it.
		Whale oil is best stored in the corner of your house.
	www.hallman.org /indian/whale1.html (522 words)

	Touring Eugene O'Neill's New London
		The residents of New London have dubbed them Whale Oil Row due to the fact that the owners’ wealth stemmed from whaling.
		Whale Oil Row was a familiar place to the young writer and wandering by the elegant houses he probably asked himself what secrets were hidden within.
		Exterior of the Mannon house on a late afternoon in April, 1865...Behind the drive the white Grecian temple portico with its six tall columns extends across the stage...The white columns cast fl bars of shadow on the gray wall behind them.
	www.eoneill.com /library/touring/10.htm (307 words)

	Jojoba Oil Natural Oils International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pure Jojoba Oil comes from the bean of the Jojoba Shrub or Tree, Simmondsia chinensis, an evergreen, native to the desert regions of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.
		The oil is filtered and then normally pasteurized to reduce the total plate count of bacteria to below 50 organisms per gram.
		Jojoba Oil was applied to contralateral sites on the back of the hands of five subjects, after baseline measurements had been made.
	www.naturaloils.com /jojoba.html (416 words)

	Trying Out the Oil
		With the blubber removed, the sperm whale’s head is cut from its body and raised onto the deck.
		A hole is cut in the whale’s skull to drain the spermaceti – as much as 528 gallons (2,000 litres) from a large whale.
		Ropes and pulleys are used to pull the whale’s teeth from its jawbone.
	www.salariya.com /web_books/whaling/trying/trying.html (235 words)

	"Whale" Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I've had alot of questions regarding my whale oil problem, so I thought I would give everyone the entire story, so here it goes.
		The GM guy told me that they where having chatter problems with the Positrac diffs in that the fluid needed to be changed every year and this oil had to be added.
		He also recommended the whale oil, but said it would take awhile to work into the diff.
	home.att.net /~ferrari/oil5.htm (774 words)

	M of A - Molybdenum and Whale Oil
		From the figure [above], it is evident that the production of whale oil followed a bell-curve according to Hubbert's theory, modelled with a simple Gaussian curve, albeit showing strong oscillations.
		Peak oil may be the first time that humans have had to come to terms with the finitude of our mineral resources.
		There is nothing that really proves, seems to indicate with some high degree of certainty, that the whale oil curve was strongly or uniquely caused by depletion.
	www.moonofalabama.org /2005/03/molybdenum_and_.html (5231 words)

	Whale Oil Lamp - Super Lamp Guide
		A reproduction of a 19th century whale oil lamp, made for us here in New England of spun pewter with a weighted base.
		WHALE OIL LAMP, colorless, square, two tiered pressed glass base with a wide ringed knopf...
		TOP Whale oil and burning fluid lamps from the Watkins collection typify early...
	www.superlampguide.com /whale-oil-lamp.html (718 words)

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		In late Victorian England, glass whale oil lamps were simple utilitarian items used to light the homes of many people.
		They were a compromise between the cheap but smokey candles and the new fangled gas and electric lights available only to the wealthy.
		Slightly more upmarket are the larger handled whale oil lamps.
	members.lycos.co.uk /MikeSheridan/oilo.htm (403 words)

	Whale oil in DR - DR1 Forums
		"Local environmental groups have expressed concern that seeping whale oil might damage the beach, which has long been a prime viewing area to observe the whales which make Samana Bay their winter playground.
		Those living nearby are beginning to catch a whiff of the tons of decomposing blubber.
		I mean, isn't there a "slight" difference in the oil contained in a Whale vs. petroleum (Hydrocarbon) products.
	www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6040 (153 words)

	whale oil (OT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chemically: Paraffin is just a mixture of long chains (like a row of vertebrae in a spinal column) of carbons, with hydrogens attached whereever there is space.
		Whale oil is a mix of things but is mostly long carbon chains (see above) with an ester functionality.
		And you would know the practical aspects of this better than I (I've never to my knowledge seen either whale oil or paraffin used on a piano), but having acids in the piano can't be good for the metal parts.
	www.ptg.org /pipermail/caut/2004-August/012436.html (395 words)

	whale oil
		Whale of a find -- Researcher says oil exploration not affecting whales.
		Whale flights inspire former diver Whale flights inspire former oil rig diver (The Press (Canterbury, New Zealand))
		Whales' fate, oil drilling collide on Russian island (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0852008.html (209 words)

	M of A - Whale Oil
		A few years ago, 40 whales in a four year trip was regarded as good going.
		All of the estimates of the “sustainability” of the whale-based economy were put together before such inventions as exploding harpoons.
		Reducing whaling would cost vast amounts of money and destroy our economy; credible estimates would suggest that without whale-oil lamps we would all sit around in the dark until we die.
	www.moonofalabama.org /2005/02/whale_oil.html (2765 words)

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